Please help.. how many watts do I need for my PC

[Chefboyardee83]

This will be my first build.

Parts I am purchasing:

AMD FX-8350 Black Edition Vishera 8-Core 4.0GHz (4.2GHz Turbo) Socket AM3+

ASUS Crosshair V Formula-Z AM3+ AMD 990FX

CORSAIR Hydro Series H100i Extreme Performance Water/Liquid CPU Cooler

EVGA GeForce GTX 760 FTW 4GB 256-bit w/ EVGA ACX Cooler

G.SKILL Sniper Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 1866

WD BLACK SERIES 1TB 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s

Silicon Power S60 240GB SATA III 6Gb/s Internal SSD

Corsair Carbide Series Air 540


I am thinking perhaps 750w would be fine but not sure.

Please advise.

 

[leeb2013]

a good brand 600W would be fine or middle tier 750w

 

[Dogsnake]

I did a calc. for your system and a very good quality 500W would do. So 750W gives you enough headroom to add a second video card if you ever want or whatever else comes along.

 

[Winly]

go with a good 750W Tier 1 or Tier 2 A PSU. Later on you may want to add another GPU or upgrade your system.
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-1804779/power-supply-unit-tier-list.html

 

[Chefboyardee83]

Thank you all for your advise.. I guess I will purchase the EVGA SUPERNOVA 750w G2.

 

[photonboy]

Above is correct.

*However, if you haven't yet built the PC I would strongly suggest basing it on an i5-4xxx Intel CPU instead. I might even be able to build something for about the same budget that includes an i5-4xxx CPU and a GTX970 4GB graphics card since there are parts you could swap for cheaper components if you want to focus on the core gaming parts (CPU + Graphics card).

 

[Winly]

Thank you all for your advise.. I guess I will purchase the EVGA SUPERNOVA 750w G2.

please take a look a the link I posted. A PSU its a very imporant part of a system, you dont want to go cheap with.
By the way, the EVGA is a great PSU "Tier One"

 

[photonboy]

Again, ignore this if you already have the parts ordered but I'd suggest something more like THIS for the main parts:
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/7z6GdC
- Asus Z97-A mobo
- i5-4690K (or i5-4460 if budget)
- EVGA GTX970 4GB ACX 2.0 or similar
- CM "EVO" (or Noctua NH-U12S if budget permits)

I can't say exactly since I don't know your total budget but even if you have to get an i5-4460 and slightly cheaper motherboard you'll have a far better system this way (i5-4460 + GTX970 vs FX-8350 + GTX760).

Note that you don't need an expensive CPU cooler for modern Intel CPU's.